Params and empty strings

rubyonrails-talk
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Is there some better way to do this?

http://assertbuggy.blogspot.com/2007/06/ruby-on-rails-params-and-empty-strings.html

2

I usually use a before validate hook, and do things like:

def normalize_fields   self.foo = nil if self.foo.blank?   self.bar = nil if self.bar.blank? end